[She can't help but flinch at that. She takes a deep breath before trying a more serious approach.]

But this world tears us away from our own. Why can't it go the other way? I know it's not nice! I know Crocker never wanted to go back home! He told me so himself! And the world threw him away anyways. If people wanted to leave willingly, and they knew how, why aren't they telling the rest of us?